Santa Clara Valley Section Annual Report for 2009

    By February 15 of each year (even including 2010, when it fell on a holiday), the local sections of the ACS must submit reports of their activities for the previous year to the national office in Washington, DC.  National provides forms for us to fill out by putting them on their "SOLAR" (Submit OnLine Annual Reports) page on their  website. The Chair, Past-Chair, Treasurer and Secretary fill these out. Committee chairs write reports, often illustrated with photos, of their activities for the year, and these are posted as web pages and the URLs are entered into the "Appendix" portion of the SOLAR web page so that the members of national's report review committee can access them. We no longer ship 3-ring binders to National, although we do make one binder of the material as a permanent record for our own archives.
    As we did beginning in 2004, we are making this material available here on our web site. National allows us to download "printable" versions of the web page forms into which we enter our data, and we present these here, along with the web-page Appendices, links to which are listed below.

    The complete report consists of four parts:

    Part I is a questionnaire, featuring squares to check and simple numeric answers to questions.

    Part II is the narrative report, written mostly by Natalie McClure, who is our present Past-Chair, and who was our Chair for 2009. Bruce Raby, our present Chair, writes the goals for 2010. Our web version here contains links to the supplementary material, which consists of the reports written by our many committee chairs.

    Part III is the financial report, similar to the tax return that non-profit organizations such as ACS must file. Our Executive Committee feels that this sort of information should not be displayed publicly, so we're not putting it here on our website. SCV members are welcome to attend Executive Committee meetings (see our latest minutes for the time and place of the next one--we meet monthly except for the summer months), and there you may receive a copy of the monthly financial statement prepared by our treasurer.

    Part IV consists of self-nominations for ChemLuminary awards. The form contains application spaces for 27 different awards. This year we nominated ourselves for two: for our first-in-the-nation Community College Teacher-Scholar Award, in the category "Most Innovative New Activity or Program in a Local Section", and  for our joint meeting with members of the Los Padres Section at the Monterey Bay Aquarium Reseaarch Institute, in the category "Local Section Partnership Award."

    The form is very lengthy, and since we filled in only two sections of it, most of it is blank. So look for links near the top of the Part IV page that will take you directly down to the sections we did fill in to make the nominations.
    Click below for the portions you want to see:

    Part I Questionnaire
    Part II Narrative Report

    Appendices to Part II
        Community College Teaching Award
        ChemPloyment
         Directory Project
        Electronic Election
        E-mail  Notifications
        Family Science Night
        Hospitality
        Minority Affairs Committee
        Mosher Award
        National Chemistry Week
        Newsletter
        Chemistry Olympiad
        Ottenberg Award
        Radding Award
        Student Affairs
        Student Interview Workshop
        Tech Trek
          Web Committee

    Part IV ChemLuminary Award Nomination form

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